Candidate: CVE-2009-3897
PublicDate: 2009-11-24 17:30:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3897
 http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2009-November/000143.html
Description:
 Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.8 sets 0777 permissions during creation of certain
 directories at installation time, which allows local users to access
 arbitrary user accounts by replacing the auth socket, related to the parent
 directories of the base_dir directory, and possibly the base_dir directory
 itself.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> only affects 1.2.x
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557601
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_dovecot:
upstream_dovecot: released (1.2.8)
dapper_dovecot: not-affected (1.0.beta3-3ubuntu5.6)
hardy_dovecot: not-affected (1:1.0.10-1ubuntu5.2)
intrepid_dovecot: not-affected (1:1.1.4-0ubuntu1.3)
jaunty_dovecot: not-affected (1:1.1.11-0ubuntu4.1)
karmic_dovecot: not-affected (1:1.1.11-0ubuntu11)
devel_dovecot: not-affected (1:1.1.11-0ubuntu11)